Altered Cortical Activity in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder during Attentional Load Task

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 811-819

  El Sayed, Eman ^a   Larsson, Jan Olov ^a   Persson, Hans E ^a   Rydelius, Per Anders ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Healthy controls; Quantitative electroencephalography; Vigilance task

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALERTNESS; ALPHA RHYTHM; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MATURATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THETA RHYTHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; HOSPITALIZATION; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0036634871     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004583-200207000-00013     Document Type: Article

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